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"[MUSIC] Welcome to the module Livelihoods and Food Security in Humanitarian Crisis. I would like to introduce you to a topic that many years ago, I would never have expected for me to teach on. My training is in nutrition, medicine, and public health. However, over the last many years, I've come to discover the enormous importance of livelihoods and how they are affected by humanitarian crisis. I've seen how damaged livelihoods have had devastating impact on people's health including on the nutritional status. I want to tell you something I experienced many years ago. I was working for the Red Cross in Africa in flooded areas. There, I saw people who had just been handed out bed nets to protect themselves from malaria mosquitoes. Instead of using these bed nets for protection, they used them for fishing. At the time I was puzzled, and wondered, why are these people caring more for fish than for preventing them from becoming sick? They're such potentially deadly diseases, malaria. I realized that people make decisions based on their priorities. And in the case of those floods, the families I saw trying to fish with these nets, gave more priority to get food than to prevent them of becoming potentially ill at a later date. This meant that perhaps we, as a humanitarian aids community, had not well assessed the needs of the people affected, and perhaps provided the right commodities, but not in the right time. I also kept wondering whether in that context with floods, we should have provided proper fishing nets, or food, or even small fishing boats. I remember that some people that were not used to fishing lost their lives as crocodiles were all over the place now with these floods. What that experience taught me is something I want to address in this module. I will be talking about livelihoods, and then go a bit more in detail on food security and food security assessment. And then, I will end discussing examples of livelihood support programs in humanitarian crises. I will use practical examples and we'll finish with some video films. I hope you will enjoy it and thanks for taking the time."
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